The Ian McDonald mention reminds me of my fondness for the Bantam/Spectra Science Fiction and fantasy books that came out mostly during the 80s and 90s. I've pretty much left much of the genre behind because of all the endless sequels and sharecropper novels, but I remember the Spectra line putting out some pretty…

It is possible to like both, but thanks for playing.

But you totally can pretend you are Preadator, so it's cool and gross.

These days, I highly doubt that Stephen King could knock anything out with half the length and a quarter of the dialogue.

Watch the Sunrise.

Maybe Depp could just get the rights to "The Stress of her Regard" and do it away from the PotC franchise.

Already used my Wallace Shawn story back when he did an interview. I think it was random roles.

The wool hat would come in handy, at least.

Yeah, but Mr. Skin can't add screen grabs of films that aren't made. You think those files materialize out of thin air?

Happyjack, I see it as, he was in exile, and had to pay the bills somehow. Nuff said.

I was thinking the same thing. Chase has been in comedy exile long enough. Sure his talk show was bad, but was it that much worse than Kilborn or Carson Daly? C'mon!

This is the first time a post came up using the article subject's name that I ever thought could plausibly be him.

Except that Dee Snyder might get a You Tube greenlit, but little else.

It's between that and "Battlefield Earth." If only James Joyce had started his own religion, it wouldn't be a tie.

I see what you are saying about Auberon's bottoming out moment. I think he feels some shame there, and he does get upset at George's "father of Sylvie" maybe revelation, but he's sort of the only character who is given that more typical reaction. The book as a whole treats them as no big deal. Eventually, Auberon…

Well, they mention the Bronx, and a few specific streets, and even Spuyten Duyvil, which I live across the water from in Inwood. It is pretty specifically New York, even though it is one of the imagination.

Thanks for the link Natty.

I think the word I was looking for earlier was entitlement. The Drinkwater clan have a sort of a play-by-their-own rules quality, like the extremely famous, or wealthy, or like royalty. That said, all of the borderline transgressive sexuality here is presented very matter of fact, and set aside almost immediately. …

The ending
One thing that struck me about the ending of the book is Smokey's death. Crowley has a meta-moment early on where Smokey assumes he is at best, a minor character in whatever the great Drinkwater saga turns out to be, but his death takes the place of honor in the form of the book, essentially dying at the…

In Irish Mythology, the Tuatha De Dannan, were a race who went underground when the Milesians invaded the island. They supposedly became the faeries of Irish folklore. Maybe Crowley had that idea in mind with the Drinkwater clan.